Jill blinked. "Wait… Selene is a vampire?"
Selene didn't deny it. That made Jill and Alice more confused. If she isn't refusing then it's truth.
Both won stared at her like she'd just announced gravity was optional.
Jill shook her head slowly. "How… how? Vampires are thing of movies and novels."
"Well… she doesn't look like the vampires from movies," Alice said, confused. "No red eyes, no turning to ash in sunlight, no pointy bat ears."
Alice leaned a little closer, like she was expecting fangs to suddenly pop out if she stared hard enough.
Luke nodded. "Yeah, sotis apperance can be deceiving."
Jill huffed. "Yeah… but not this much?"
Selene finally spoke, her tone dry. "Your world has zombies, bio-weapons, clones. And vampires are where you draw the line?"
Jill opened her mouth… then slowly closed it again.
Alice exhaled through her nose. "…Fair point."
Jill also suddenly realized sothing. No wonder she had occasionally seen Selene biting Luke's neck.
She always assud it was so strange kink between them, but now it made sense. Selene wasn't biting him for fun—she was drinking blood.
"So, any more questions?" Luke asked, looking between them.
Jill didn't hesitate. "Yeah. One more. Are you even human?"
After finding out Selene—who looked completely normal—was actually a vampire, Jill wasn't taking chances.
And Luke being able to do impossible things only made her more suspicious. For all she knew, he could be so fairy, demon, or whatever else existed out there.
Luke shrugged. "In my mind, I'm human. But my body? Not really. I stopped being human about fifteen months ago."
Jill and Alice both froze.
Their faces showed the sa exact expression—complete confusion mixed with a quiet "what the hell did he just say?" look.
Alice was the first to speak. "Wait… how can you stop being human, change into sothing else, and still call yourself human in your mind?"
She looked even more confused than Jill. After all, she herself wasn't fully human anymore thanks to Umbrella's experints, yet Luke spoke about his own change like it was nothing.
Luke leaned back slightly. "Alice, just because my body changed doesn't an the part that makes human disappeared. My ideals, my choices, my thoughts—those are still mine. My appearance or biology doesn't erase who I am."
Alice watched him carefully.
Luke continued, "So even if my body isn't human anymore, the person I am inside hasn't changed. I still think like a human. I still act like one. That's what matters."
Jill nodded slowly as it started to make sense. "So you an… the physical part doesn't define you?"
"Exactly," Luke said. "I'm still human where it counts."
Selene's smug look lingered, but Luke leaned back in his chair and tapped a finger on the table.
"Just now you heard about Umbrella High Command's plan?" he said. "They might be human, but their minds… no different from monsters."
Jill and Alice went quiet. The reminder hit harder than anything supernatural.
Images of Umbrella's experints, their "extinction plan," and the mountain of bodies they left behind flashed through their minds.
So people may look human, but their hearts and minds are monsters.
Luke's voice softened on that one, but the weight behind it stayed. Neither Jill nor Alice argued — they'd seen too much to.
He continued, gesturing vaguely upward, as if pointing toward the wider universe.
"And there are so places in universe where humans are so powerful they can destroy worlds or create one."
Selene's eyes narrowed slightly, sensing he wasn't exaggerating. Jill and Alice exchanged a look — the kind that said great, there's more insane cosmic nonsense out there?
Luke gave a small shrug.
"So stop being hung up on the whole human thing," said Luke.
Jill let out a long, slow breath and dropped into the nearest chair. "Okay… yeah. Fine. At this point? Vampire doesn't even make top-ten bizarre things anymore."
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